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For a moment I feared the occupants would shoot at him as a hold-up-man because he looked so disheveled and [[strikethrough]] [[??]] [[strikethrough]] dirt stained white suit after our days exploration. Fortunately they let him crowd his bulky body in their car and went off. After about 2 hours waiting and accustomed to the combined noise of buzzing insects, croaking frogs, night birds and alligators we saw the shining light of an approaching automobile one [[underlined in red]] Andrew [[/underlined in red]] Murray came with a new tire which was soon fixed and took us homeward. - Unexpectedly there were no mosquitoes or at least we were not bitten by any insects. Arrived home tired and hungry at about 10 A.M but glad to have escaped a mosquito night Sent Murray with night letter telegram for Sanford
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Brown giving my final instructions for his European trip.
[[underlined]] May 8. [[underlined]] [[red underlined]] Elon Hooker [[/red underlined]] here arriving [[red underlined]] alone [[/red underlined]] in his motor car has been on the way since weeks but [[strikethrough]] got [[strikethrough]] after encountering unpleasant weather at first struck Daytona Beach and there [[red underlined] lying on the sand [[/red underlined]] in his swimming suit has become so terribly [[red underlined]] blistered [[/red underlined]] as to have been laid up for several days and still now limps and his feet and arms hurt him  He [[red underlined]] looks thin [[/red underlined]] and [[red underlined]] depressed [[/red underlined]]  Stays at his sisters house. [[strikethrough]] Sh [[strikethrough]] Mrs. Trimble. She is leaving tomorrow and he is to continue his tour northwards along the West Coast. Spent all day here, it rained in the morning Then we went out to show him the neighborhood.  Cocoplum Beach, Cutler etc. Says [[red underlined]] business [[/red underlined]] is [[red underlined]] very bad. [[/red underlined]] in [[red underlined]] Niagara [[/red underlined]] Falls.

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